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[The birth of mankinde, otherwyse named The womans booke]

by: Rösslin, Eucharius, -1526

Publication date: 1590

Publisher: [London] : [R. Watkins?]

Collection: wellcomelibrary; ukmhl; medicalheritagelibrary; europeanlibraries; medicallibrary

Contributor: Wellcome Library

Language: English

Rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark

Item Size: 629.2M

8 unnumbered pages, 84 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 85-143, 142-144, 143-204 pages, [2?] pages : (4to)

Signatures: [para]⁴ B-F⁸ G⁸+С2С H-O⁸

Similar to the eds. of 1598 and later (STC 21160, etc.) but evidently earlier. The work was entered in the Stationers Company Registers by R. Watkins (son-in-law of Richard Jugge) on 5 Oct. 1588. The anatomical figures on G2r-3r and X2, and the birth figures on G3v-5r, whereas all the following eds. collate A⁴ B-O⁸ with anatomical figures on G2r-4r and birth figures on H6r-7v

Based on a translation by Richard Jonas of a Latin edition of: Roeslin, Eucharius. Der swangern Frawen und hebammen Rosegarten

Imprint from STC